Re: [Familiar] Re: [Opie] strategic direction

From: Matthew Allum <breakfast.a.t.10.am>
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 16:29:40 EST

on Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:05:17PM +0000, Moray Allan wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 20:25, Balatoni Denes wrote:
> > I would be interested in these numbers too. Judging
> > from the fact that over a few days/weeks s x starts to eat up
> > all my ram+swap (cca 500-700mb rss)
>
> That's almost certainly due to memory leaks in the applications you're
> using: if they leak pixmaps, they will be counted against the X server
> process, even though the leakage is not caused by X.
>

Yes, or badly written display drivers for your card. Not running the
closed sourced Nvidia ones by any chance ?

  -- Matthew
Received on Wed Jan 15 21:29:54 2003

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